Scholasticate

Yeah it is unfortunate that we are that we can't do any actual detective work. At least Briardien asked for my oppinion sometimes, and agreed with it. Of course it is no witcher temple district, but for an MMO I think it is a pretty decent invetigation questline. I'm actually enjoying it more than Hildibrand. Hildi feels kinda forced. Like they really didn't want to do more, but caved in to fan demand. Their heart might not be in it. Or it might just be the abscence of Greg and Ultros.

Main Scenario

We are really going to have to disagree here. I know we can't change the story but I really liked that we got to talk a lot. Especially when I had a chance to remind Alisae of that one time she saved our skins in 2.55 to stop her from lamenting her "uselessness". It was also a nice touch how they implemented Titan hard. We also got a huge lore dump, some twists, a decent ammount of forshadowing, an epic confrontation with the WoDs, an acknowledgement of our past deeds outside the Main Scenario (Coil), and a pet that as far as I know has been in high demand (Moenbryda). It also fealt quite long, with a dungeon, a trial, a solo duty and several long cutscenes. For me this was the best patch-Main Scenario including the 2.x era

Still loving Deep Dungeons and I like looking for hoard. It also explains why my character goes in over and over again despite freeing Edda long ago.

As for Squadrons and Woundrous Tails: I'm doing Frontlines and dungeons anyway for tomestones, so I see no problem with getting seals and recruits as a bonus. It will not gear me for savage raids, but I was never that good at raiding so it doesn't matter for me much. I just like having new toys to play with.